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Community History Archive Partner
Mary F. Shipper Library At Potomac State College of WVU
Keyser, West Virginia
Explore this community history collection to discover the people, places, organizations, and events of Keyser.
1837 to 2025Dates represented
See individual titles for available dates.
1,115,218Archive pages
Historical pages reported for this collection.
Explore local history
Discover the people, places, and stories of Keyser, West Virginia.
Discover another side of Keyser, West Virginia through newspapers as well as college and university materials preserved in the Mary F. Shipper Library At Potomac State College of WVU's digital archive. Its fifty-six titles include material from 1837 to 2025.
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Selected titles
The titles shared by Mary F. Shipper Library At Potomac State College of WVU include “Bluefield Daily Telegraph” and “Wheeling Evening Standard”.
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A closer look
Newspaper pages connect individual accounts with a wider story, preserving how events were reported and presented to the readers of the day.
The reporting of earlier years offers a way to explore how events were understood as they happened and how local experiences became part of the historical record. A family story, a classroom project or curiosity about a familiar place can lead to a closer look at the community and the lives of earlier generations. Explore the archive online for free, without a subscription.
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Titles in this collection
Browse fifty-six titles and 1,115,218 digitized pages, with material from 1837 to 2025. Through a partnership with Advantage Archives, Mary F. Shipper Library At Potomac State College of WVU shares these sources from the past. Some years or items may be missing between the dates shown.
Every search for the past starts with a question. Explore the titles below, follow the sources that speak to it, and see what new detail appears.
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
12,952 pages from 1901 to 1920
Danville Progress
2,576 pages from 1913 to 1919
Elk Garden News
878 pages from 1889 to 1892
Fayette Journal
2,356 pages from 1917 to 1921
Frankfort Beacon
4,038 pages from 2009 to 2016
Grant County Press
33,102 pages from 1896 to 1950
Hardy County News
1,090 pages from 1936 to 1942
Keyser Tribune
5,726 pages from 1876 to 1974
Martinsburg Evening Journal
11,434 pages from 1918 to 1920
Mineral County Gazette
8 pages in 1870
Mineral Daily News
43,292 pages from 1912 to 1928
Mineral Daily News and Keyser Tribune
40,936 pages from 1928 to 2019
Mineral Daily News Tribune
556,050 pages from 1929 to 2024
Mineral Daily News Tribune and Echo
18,798 pages from 2003 to 2010
Mineral Daily News Tribune and Mountain Echo
14,160 pages from 2010 to 2016
Mineral News
3,014 pages from 2024 to 2025
Mineral News Tribune and Echo
11,022 pages from 1995 to 2002
Mineral Tribune
1,840 pages from 2024 to 2025
Moorefield Examiner
19,108 pages from 1907 to 1957
Moundsville Daily Echo
10,798 pages from 1917 to 1920
Mountain Echo
128 pages from 1878 to 1972
News Tribune and Echo
5,310 pages from 1995 to 1997
News Tribune and Mountain Echo
456 pages from 2010 to 2011
Pasquino
10,602 pages from 1921 to 2014
Pendleton Times
4,692 pages from 1913 to 1930
Piedmont Herald
93,224 pages from 1887 to 2006
Potomac State Pasquino
1,116 pages from 1939 to 1949
South Branch Intelligencer
11,446 pages from 1837 to 1896
The Belington Progressive
1,652 pages from 1918 to 1920
The Braxton Central
2,112 pages from 1916 to 1920
The Braxton Democrat
10,448 pages from 1909 to 1920
The Clarksburg Exponent
16,096 pages from 1917 to 1920
The Evening Press
4,936 pages from 1917 to 1919
The Firecracker
8 pages in 1936
The Follansbee Review
2,888 pages from 1917 to 1919
The Gassaway Times
2,236 pages from 1912 to 1917
The Glenville Pathfinder
1,918 pages from 1915 to 1919
The Hampshire Review
50,214 pages from 1884 to 1952
The Hampshire Review And The South Branch Intelligencer
28,780 pages from 1952 to 1973
The Hardy County News
5,394 pages from 1897 to 1939
The Herald
24 pages in 1932
The Independent
3,674 pages from 1917 to 1920
The Jackson Herald
1,384 pages from 1918 to 1920
The Kingwood Chronicle
212 pages in 1861
The Lincoln Republican
1,526 pages from 1917 to 1919
The Moorefield Examiner
11,430 pages from 1909 to 1942
The Moorefield Examiner And Hardy County News
4,136 pages from 1957 to 1960
The Mountain Echo
6,264 pages from 1942 to 1965
The Preston County Journal
26,556 pages from 1881 to 1926
The Siren
8 pages in 1936
The Weekly Examiner
1,872 pages from 1902 to 1907
The West Virginia Advocate
9,546 pages from 1982 to 1992
The West Virginia News
1,692 pages from 1918 to 1919
Tribune
16 pages from 1876 to 1879
Virginia Argus and Hampshire Advertiser
8 pages in 1859
Wheeling Evening Standard
36 pages from 1875 to 1878
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About the Archive
About The West Virginia Newspaper Archives
Access is provided free of charge courtesy of Potomac State College & Mary F. Shipper Library. Other digital collections & resources may be found at: [https://psc.lib.wvu.edu](https://psc.lib.wvu.edu). Archival microfilm copies are maintained in the Library’s collection and available on-site during library business hours. Digitization has been made possible due to the support of private donations as well as awards and grants from the Mineral County Genealogical Society, the US Wind Force Foundation, and the WVU Humanities Center. If you would like to support our project or "sponsor a roll," please contact our library and ask to speak to our director for more details.
More ways to explore and share local history
Research Guidance
Keep publication context with a finding
A familiar name or place can lead to a new view of Keyser. Use the newspaper titles shared by the Mary F. Shipper Library At Potomac State College of WVU to explore how newspapers described the subject in their own time, and compare available accounts before extending one report into a wider community story. Note the newspaper title, issue date, and page for a useful report. Compare another account where available, and keep differences in timing or perspective visible rather than blending them into a single version.
Save the newspaper title, issue date, and page, then compare another dated account where available. Keep differences in timing and perspective visible so the source context is not lost. If the accounts disagree, record what each source supports and use the difference to shape a further search rather than smoothing them into one version.
A research trail is most useful when it leaves room for what is not yet known. Record the title, date, and page or item reference where available, along with what remains uncertain and which question you want to follow next. Those details help keep a possible connection from becoming an unsupported conclusion.
The college and university materials shared by the Mary F. Shipper Library At Potomac State College of WVU offer another research path. These sources can connect a name or activity with the way an institution represented its own time. Keep the issuing institution, date and kind of item with a finding where supplied, and distinguish a publication’s account from the wider experience of its community.
Community Partnership
Keeping local history a community resource
This community archive is made possible by the collaboration of the Mary F. Shipper Library At Potomac State College of WVU, its community, and Advantage Archives. Together, these partnerships preserve local sources and give people a way to explore, learn from, and share the history around them.
Advantage Archives covers ongoing archive hosting, storage, development, and maintenance. The institution and its community do not pay a subscription, seat license, annual support contract, or other recurring archive-service charge. Local history remains a community resource, not a subscription to maintain.
Would you like to see more of your community's history preserved and accessible? Start a conversation with your library, newspaper publisher, historical or genealogical society, museum, or school about the materials they would like to share and a possible partnership with Advantage Archives.
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Stories, research tips, and archive news
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